Twitter Rolls Out Pinned Conversations Feature to DMs

Twitter has added a pinned conversations feature to its Direct Messages (DM) service for iOS, Android, and the Web, allowing users to pin conversations to the top of their inbox.

Even if newer messages from other chats arrive, pinning conversations keeps them at the top of the chat list. The feature was previously available as part of Twitter Blue, the company’s paid subscription service that provides early access to new features before they are made available to the general public.

On Friday, the microblogging service announced that users can now pin up to six conversations to the top of their DM inbox on Android, iOS, and Twitter for Web.

Gadgets 360 tested the feature and discovered that pinning a conversation on one device brings it to the top of other devices as well. When you pin a chat, it is moved to a new section called Pinned conversations, while the other chats are listed under All conversations.

Twitter will also allow users to pin a group chat to the top of their inbox, making it easier to find a chat with more than one user, especially if your inbox is very crowded (or active). However, tapping the share button to send a tweet via DM does not display pinned conversations at the top — Twitter appears to have kept the chronological order of chats for this menu.

Pinned conversations are a feature found in several popular messaging apps, including WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Google’s and Apple’s Messages apps, and Facebook Messenger, which all allow users to pin conversations to the top of their chat list. The microblogging service is the latest to add the feature, and it comes shortly after it acquired Slack competitor Quill in December to help it improve its messaging tools.

Twitter introduced a Labs section last year to give Twitter Blue subscribers early access to new features before they were rolled out to other users. The first two features tested as part of Twitter Blue Labs were pinned conversations on iOS and longer uploads on desktop. Longer video uploads and NFT (Non-fungible token) profile pictures are currently listed as features available to test with Twitter Blue Labs and could be rolled out to all users at a later date, according to the company’s help center.